A30598:206
The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
The rare jewel of Christian contentment wherein is showed, I. What contentment is, II. The holy art or mystery of it, III. Several lessons that Christ teacheth, to work the heart to contentment, IV. The excellencies of it, V. The evils of murmuring, VII. The aggravations of the sin of murmuring / by Jeremiah Burroughs.The rare jewel of Christian contentment wherein is shewed, I. What contentment is, II. The holy art or mystery of it, III. Several lessons that Christ teacheth, to work the heart to contentment, IV. The excellencies of it, V. The evils of murmuring, VII. The aggravations of the sin of murmuring / by Jeremiah Burroughs.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1649
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It was a speech of Oecolampadius to Parillus, saith he (when they were speaking about his extreme poverty,) Not so poor, though I have been very poor, yet I would be poorer, I could be willing to be poorer than I am, for the truth is (as if he should say) the Lord knew that that was more suitable to me, and I knew that my own heart was such, that a poor condition was more suitable to me than a rich; so certainly would we say if we knew our own hearts, that such and such a condition is better for me than if it had been otherwise.
It was a speech of Oecolampadius to Parillus, saith he (when they were speaking about his extream poverty,) Not so poor, though I have been very poor, yet I would be poorer, I could be willing to be poorer than I am, for the truth is (as if he should say) the Lord knew that that was more sutable to me, and I knew that my own heart was such, that a poor condition was more sutable to me than a rich; so certainly would we say if we knew our own hearts, that such and such a condition is better for me than if it had been otherwise.
The Seventh lesson, Is the burden of a prosperous estate. Such a one that comes into Christ's School to be instructed in this Art, never comes to attain to any great skill in this Art until he comes to understand the burden that is in a prosperous estate.
The Seventh lesson, Is the burden of a prosperous estate. Such a one that comes into Christ's School to be instructed in this Art, never comes to attain to any great skill in this Art untill he comes to understand the burden that is in a prosperous estate.
Object. You will say, What burden is there in a prosperous estate.